Movement
Published by Shaun Gaskett · 2025
Optimise Your Movement Function with Myotherapy
How myotherapy assessment uncovers hidden movement faults that cause pain, limit performance, and lead to recurring injury — and what we do about them.
Treatment
Published by Shaun Gaskett · 2025
Why Combining Techniques Gets Better Results
Why dry needling plus myofascial release together outperforms either technique in isolation — and why multi-modal treatment is the standard at That Muscle Guy.
Pain Education
Published by Shaun Gaskett · 2025
Explaining Pain: Why It's Rarely Just One Cause
Central sensitisation, sleep disruption, and chronic stress all converge to amplify pain. Here's what the peer-reviewed evidence says — and why treating only the tissue often isn't enough.
Pain Education
Published by Shaun Gaskett · 2025
Taping in Injury Management: What the Evidence Says About How It Works
Kinesiology and rigid tape work through six distinct mechanisms — proprioception, pain gate modulation, muscle facilitation, lymphatic drainage, mechanical restriction, and confidence. Here's what 20 peer-reviewed studies from 2017–2025 show.
Conditions
Published by Shaun Gaskett · 2025
Sciatica: What It Actually Is and What the Evidence Says About Recovery
Neurodynamics, central sensitisation, and why the most common responses to sciatica — rest and injections — are contradicted by the research. Including work by Jesson, Schmid, and Coppieters.
Conditions
Published by Shaun Gaskett · 2025
Tennis Elbow: The Evidence on What It Is and How to Treat It
Lateral epicondylalgia is tendinopathy, not tendinitis. Cortisone injections produce short-term relief and worse 12-month outcomes. Here's what the RCT evidence says about long-term recovery.
Conditions
Published by Shaun Gaskett · 2025
Lower Back Pain: What the Evidence Actually Says
Rest, scans, and paracetamol are the most common responses to lower back pain — none are supported by the current evidence. The biopsychosocial model, the Lancet series, and what actually works.
Recovery
Published by Shaun Gaskett · 2025
Weight Training as We Age: Why It's the Most Important Thing You're Not Doing
Sarcopenia begins in your 30s and accelerates through each decade. The evidence — including Fiatarone's nursing home trial and the NSCA position statement — makes the case for resistance training at every age.
Sports
Published by Shaun Gaskett · 2025
Runner's Knee: What Patellofemoral Pain Actually Is and How to Fix It
Patellofemoral pain is driven by hip mechanics failures, not just a knee problem. The 2018 International Consensus and multiple RCTs confirm combined hip and knee strengthening outperforms knee-only treatment.
Sports
Published by Shaun Gaskett · 2025
Jumper's Knee: The Evidence on Patellar Tendinopathy and How to Treat It
Isometric exercise for immediate in-season analgesia, heavy slow resistance for remodelling, and why eccentric-only protocols are no longer the standard. Rio, Kongsgaard, Cook, and Malliaras reviewed.
Conditions
Published by Shaun Gaskett · 2025
Plantar Fasciopathy: Terminology, Tissue, and What Actually Works
It's not fasciitis — biopsy shows no inflammation. The deep posterior calf compartment, the windlass mechanism, why cortisone backfires, and the RCT evidence for high-load calf strengthening as the best long-term treatment.
Sports
Published by Shaun Gaskett · 2025
IT Band Syndrome: What Actually Happens — and Why Foam Rolling Isn't the Answer
The IT band doesn't rub over bone — it compresses an innervated fat pad. You can't foam roll dense fascia longer. Here's what Fairclough's anatomy research found, what foam rolling actually does neurologically, and what actually resolves ITBS.
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